Seeing my bike ride in Google Earth

Visualizing bicycle rides in Google Earth

I started using a Garmin Edge 800 to track my bicycle rides. The Training Center software works very well, and shows me a simple map of my ride. I saw that other people imported their rides into Google Earth, and I wondered how they did it. I learned that Google Earth uses Keyhole Markup Language (KML) to map things. This is what I wanted. I knew C#, and so decided to write a program to display my bike rides in Google Earth. After a short learning curve, I now have a program to read the export file from Garmin Training Center (tcx) and outputs a kml file. I have three options to write the file, a simple path, an animated path, and a path with splits displayed. This has been a fun project, and now I can see where I went on a very good map.